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Looking for an upper grade resource that helps students visualize and comprehend information about the California regions? These information cards are perfect for making learning engaging and stress-free! This resource includes: ✅ Photographs of each region ✅Written in student-friendly language ✅Natural features, industries, unique facts, and attractions in each region ✅ Graphic Organizer Your students will love the comprehensible text and photographs, and you’ll love how all the information for

Looking for an upper grade social studies resource that helps students synthesize their  learning into a rhythmic writing format? This book template is perfect for making learning interactive, comprehensible and gives students a real audience for their writing! This resource includes: ✅Graphic Organizer ✅Student Samples ✅Scoring Rubric Your students will love the patterned, simple format for writing, and you’ll love this alternative assignment to assess social studies comprehension. This resourc

Looking for an upper grade social studies resource that helps students understand and visualize the regions of California? This photo file is perfect for facilitating note taking, making learning engaging and stress-free! Your students will love the photographs, and you’ll love how this is the perfect supplement for teaching visual vocabulary and the regions of California! This resource is ideal for all grade levels, English learners to GATE students.  ✅Activate schema ✅Create photo dictionaries

Make Statehood Come to Life!Make statehood make sense! This interactive fourth-grade social studies lesson gets students thinking, reflecting, and connecting the idea of statehood to their own school. With an optional project and easy-to-follow plans, it’s the perfect way to make learning both fun and stress-free. With an optional project, clear lesson plans, and creative reflection activities, your students will think deeply, collaborate, and make real-world connections—without adding stres

Looking for a 4th & 5th grade math resource that helps students practice multi-digit multiplication and long division through story problems? This SCAVENGER HUNT is perfect for making learning engaging; designed to get students up & moving while practicing!  This resource includes: ✅ 32 task cards ✅ Recording sheet ✅ Answer key Your students will love moving around the room while solving problems, and you’ll love the self-checking aspect, plus these task cards reinforce comprehension of word pro

Bring California history to life with this comprehensive 4th grade social studies unit on the California missions. This engaging California Missions Bundle includes both the Missions Architecture Photo File and the Differentiated Social Studies Unit. ✅ California Missions: A Differentiated Social Studies Unit plus Novel Unit This differentiated social studies unit is designed to engage all types of learners with meaningful choice, creativity, and higher-level thinking. ✅ California Missions

Need a fun, no-stress way to help your upper graders practice fractions? These 32 task cards make review time engaging, hands-on, and meaningful! This resource includes: ✅ 32 task cards ✅ Fraction problems include: Adding & subtracting fractions with like and unlike denominatorsComparing fractionsFinding equivalent fractionsFractions on a number lineConverting between improper fractions and mixed numbers✅ Directions ✅ Recording sheet ✅ Answer key This resource is ideal for 4th and 5th grade clas

Looking for a comprehensive 4th grade social studies resource that helps students truly understand the role of the Spanish missions in California history? This differentiated social studies unit is designed to engage all types of learners with meaningful choice, creativity, and higher-level thinking. Students stay motivated while exploring California missions, and teachers enjoy the easy-to-use, flexible, and user-friendly format. This resource includes: ✅ Background information for note tak

Looking for a comprehensive upper grade bundle to teach about the four regions of California? This bundle includes top-selling resources: ✅ California Regions Photo File: Set of 41 full screen photos of California regions with information slides for teaching/ class presentations. ✅ California Regions Information Cards: written in student-friendly language, these info cards have photos and facts for each region. Perfect for note-taking. Graphic organizer included. ✅ California Geography I Have

The descriptive language of Scott O'Dell helps students to visualize the setting in Island of the Blue Dolphins. Created by Tried and True Teaching Tools, students take notes on geographic land features while reading the novel, then sketch out a map of the island using their notes. This is a GREAT way to teach writing with detail and description, story setting, as well as involve those visual students! ******************************************************************************** Customer Tip

Bring California history to life with this California Missions Architecture Photo File! This complete set includes 76 slides featuring full-screen photos and detailed architectural components of the California missions—perfect for teaching visual vocabulary and helping students recognize authentic Spanish mission design, as well as the daily lives of neophytes. Print four slides per page to create flashcards or sorting activities, making this resource versatile for whole-class lessons, small

Looking for an upper grade social studies resource that promotes active listening and helps students review geography terms and California-specific features? This interactive review game is perfect for active and engaging concept review!  This resource includes: ✅  32 I Have, Who Has cards Your students will be challenged with this fast-paced review and you’ll love the ease of this print-and-go resource. 🎉 Grab it now and start using this resource today! ****************************************

Looking for an EARTH SCIENCE resource that is aligned with the Next Generation Science Standards and helps students understand landforms? This LANDFORMS  photo file is perfect for making learning engaging and stress-free!  ✅ This resource includes:  65 Full-screen photos of each type of landformTeaching points, describing each type of landformYour students will love the photographs, and you’ll love how this is the perfect supplement for teaching visual vocabulary and California geography! Thi

CA Missions I Have Who Has Description Looking for a California missions resource that promotes active listening and helps students review mission history, architecture, workshops, and lifestyle effects on Native Californians? This interactive review game is perfect for active and engaging concept review!  This resource includes: ✅  32 I Have, Who Has cards Your students will be challenged with this fast-paced review and you’ll love the ease of this print-and-go resource. 🎉 Grab it now and star

Looking for an upper grade math resource that helps students review math skills? This GALLERY WALK is perfect for making learning engaging and stress-free! What’s included: ✅ 10 task cards (doable in one class session) ➤Skills include: rounding, place value, comparison, expanded form, adding & subtracting greater numbers, multi-digit multiplication, long division ✅ Answer key ✅ Colored and black & white versions ✅ Just print & go! ✅ Great for review! Your students will love moving around the roo

This packet by Tried and True Teaching Tools is a simple, yet powerful teaching tool! Student Learning Portfolios are crucial to students working intrinsically towards learning, versus students working to get a grade. Partnerships with families is another key component in buy-in towards successes & goal setting. Students take on responsibility for their own learning in Student-Led Conferences. Contents: ~Myself as a Reader (Initial & Final Surveys) ~Myself as a Writer (Initial & Final Surveys)

Looking for a fun and creative way to reinforce positive behavior and motivate your students? Try these scratch-off bookmarks, notes or coupons! Use them to celebrate students making wise choices, recognize effort, or reward progress! Simply add 1” circular scratch-off stickers (sold separately and easy to find online), and students can scratch to reveal their surprise message or reward! The notes are fully editable, allowing you to personalize them for your classroom goals and routines.   Thi

39 beautiful photographs (jpg.) of the four regions of California: coast, desert, Central Valley, and mountains. These California regions photos may be used to create educational products or offered as free educational resources. All images must be incorporated into a new, original resource and cannot be sold as photos alone. *************************************************************************** Customer Tips How to get TPT credit to use on future purchases: • Please go to your My Purch

Looking for an upper grade math resource that helps students practice addition, subtraction, multiplication, division and mixed operations? This interactive math game is perfect for making learning engaging and stress-free! This resource includes: ✅ 45 problem cards additionsubtractionmultiplicationdivisionmixed operations✅ 2 versions ✅ Answer key ✅ Blank task cards to fill in your own problems. Your students will love having choice and strategy; you’ll love student engagement and teamwork.  Thi

Conversation Hearts are the perfect manipulative to reinforce concepts of fractions, decimals, and percentages. Created by Tried and True Teaching Tools, this math lesson also puts data analysis and graphing into action!